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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with autohotkey coding =(

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2009, 05:40 PM »

thanks for ur help. i already tried dat one and dint work ;(

-maria- (July 05, 2009, 05:35 PM)

You might try AutoIt3.

Unless you're dead set on AHK.  Some things in AHK are way easier, but some stuff, like string handling that's easy in just about every other language, gets me ripping my hair out.  Just a thought.

http://www.autoitscr...com/forum/index.php?

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: No longer switching default browser..

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2009, 03:16 PM »

I don't know what software you are using but there's been a bug in Windows since forever when setting default browser.  If you set the default browser, and the default is not changed, you keep doing it again and nothing happens.  The trick is to set a different browser as the default, then set it back to the one you want.

It's like, you can't get there from here.  You have to go someplace else first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook/firefox url problem

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2009, 03:12 PM »

You're welcome.  I don't use Outlook, but in my newsreaders they have a link to their respective support forums and I would get that "file not found" Windows dialog. Every time I reinstall Firefox it comes back.  I use this .reg script to get rid of it:

[Select]

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HTTP\shell\open\ddeexec]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HTTPS\shell\open\ddeexec]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxURL\shell\open\ddeexec]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxHTML\shell\open\ddeexec]

All it does is delete those ddeexec keys.  I wasn't sure if it was the same fix because there's another mozillazine article that I found originally, but it seems related.  Anyway, if you reinstall FF and stuff happens, that reg script might fix it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook/firefox url problem

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2009, 12:34 PM »

This claims to fix it:

http://kb.mozillazin..._HTML_file_-_Firefox

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with autohotkey coding =(

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 05, 2009, 11:55 AM »

Search here and chances are you'll find it:

http://www.autohotke....com/forum/index.php

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General Software Discussion / Announcement: TreePadGen - generate skeleton TreePad file from folder

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 03, 2009, 11:01 PM »

TreePadGen 1.0 is a stand-alone exe designed to create a TreePad file with all the top level files in the target folder, as nodes.  Yet another attempt to come up with an easy way to comment downloads mainly, but may be applicable to any folder with files you wish to comment.

Usage is simple.  Double click the .exe.  The dreaded Windows Folder Selection dialog pops up.  Select a folder. If there are any top level files in the folder(does not recurse subdirectories) a TreePad file will be generated in the target folder with the same name as the folder with an .hjt extension tacked on.

The name of the folder will be the root node.  The name of each top level file is a level 1 node.  A dummy comment of "(put your comment here)" is inserted in each node.  All that remains is to type in comments for each file(or use the TreePad clipboard monitor autopaste mechanism.)

If there is a default program for opening .hjt file type, such as TreePad or TreePad Lite, on the system, after the file is created it will be opened.  If the output .hjt file already exists, you will be given the option to overwrite or cancel.

Since 64 bit is coming on bigtime, the 32 bit shell extension way of doing it is doomed.  This is a simpler approach.  I hope some of you find it useful.

The link is near the bottom of the download page on my site:

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

As always, it is free for you to use at your own risk.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your prefered source of registry tweaks?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 03, 2009, 04:18 PM »

Fortunately, everyone I know with a PC either knows what they are doing or they know to leave things alone with an "if it's not broke don't try to fix it" mentaiity.

-Innuendo (July 03, 2009, 01:55 PM)

That's my motto.  Wish MS would do

Fortunately, everyone I know with a PC either knows what they are doing or they know to leave things alone with an "if it's not broke don't try to fix it" mentaiity.

-Innuendo (July 03, 2009, 01:55 PM)

My mistake.  I thought I could almost hear the pain in your post. I used to be a mechanic.  When neighbors would ask for advice I'd say sure, but I'll just stand here with my arms folded and make suggestions.  If you do it and it doesn't work, well I never touched it dude!! If they went on that basis then I'd help 'em out.  But I learned fast to avoid the "it never did that until you touched it" BS!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your prefered source of registry tweaks?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 02, 2009, 04:12 PM »

You have to get your friends to do backups with an image backup.  Just tell 'em if they don't care enough to do that much, you don't care enough to rip your hair out for 'em.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 3.5 [FINAL]

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 02, 2009, 11:50 AM »

Weird as it may seem, sometimes the newest version of an addon won't work with Minefield, but often when I back off to the previous version and use Mr Tech Toolkit to override the version check, they work fine.  Go figure!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your prefered source of registry tweaks?

« Last post by MilesAhead on July 01, 2009, 11:30 AM »

Those users without extensive computer experience should not go fiddling around in the registry like it's some theme park of thrills.

-sajman99

Laughs...never heard it put quite that way, but it's 100% true. The Windows registry is the OS's central nervous system. One editing mistake in the wrong place will render your OS unbootable. Newbies should tread with care.

-Innuendo (July 01, 2009, 09:33 AM)

Hmmmmmm this reminds me learning assembler.  A lot of the books and articles warned that if you made a mistake there would be "unpredictable results" or some other scare phrase conjuring up visions of impending doom.  What it amounted to was if I locked it up, I had to cycle the power, and a file or two might get corrupted(or gasp! I might have to put in the Dos disk and do a sys c:)

You never learn if you never take a risk.  Just back up what you can. It's your machine after all!!(just don't practice while accessing my online banking please)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Select text then drag to instant txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 30, 2009, 10:20 PM »

Recently I wrote a small hotkey app for the purpose of snapping up pieces of source code from web forums.  But it can easily be used with text.  It's called SourceSnap and you can download from this page:

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

When running in the tray, highlight some text, hit the hotkey.  A file save dialog pops up and you name the file.  Another hotkey edits the last saved file in the default editor for the file type.  Alternatively, there's an additional hotkey to save paragraphs to a "snap file."

Should work on Windows XP and later.

The hotkeys are adjustable from drop down dialogs and you can change the name of the snap file(a file for collecting fragments or paragraphs that don't rate saving to a distinct file.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Sort (and split) text by user-added (tag) strings in front of paragraphs

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 30, 2009, 05:13 PM »

I didn't use vi much when I was messing around with Linux, but I tried it enough to be surprised if vim wouldn't be able to do something like this.  The paragraph manipulation is much more powerful than most editors we're used to on Windows.  And I believe it's a freebie.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your prefered source of registry tweaks?

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 30, 2009, 12:38 PM »

There are some reasons to do it, although I agree not so much for system tuning as for correcting behavior.  One I just ran into is there's no way to change the default 'edit' program for a file type in the OpenWith mechanism that XP had.  You have to tweak the registry or use a utility to do it for you. You could say, just use open, which would be okay for stuff like plain text as it's most likely to come up in a text editor.  But for scripts it could very well run the script instead.  Not always desirable. Also there's still stuff you may want to adjust to preference, such as Tooltip popup delay.

Some quirks of applications are still there.  afik every time I reinstall Firefox I have to delete certain DDE keys or if I try to open a url via FF as default browser via association, I get the "Windows cannot find..." yadda yadda.  So, it ain't all fixed.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: IE right-click menu item "Open Frame in New Window"

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 30, 2009, 12:05 AM »

Are you dependent on some old site that's been around for a long time or something?  I'm just curious. I'm not into web programming but when I was doing my site naturally the first thing I tried to do was set up frames in order to have a navigation panel.  Then I found they were deprecated.  So that's why I'm curious if there really are a lot of classic frames still out there?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: IE right-click menu item "Open Frame in New Window"

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 29, 2009, 06:01 PM »

If you are not familiar with Maxthon you may want to check it out.  It has almost as many plugins/addons as firefox but uses the IE engine.  I'd be surprised if it didn't have an addon to do what you want.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announce: SourceSnap - simple utility to snap up source or text

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 28, 2009, 10:31 PM »

SourceSnap 1.1 has also been updated for more background colors and contrasting text color on Glass enabled systems. Right now the latest is on my site.  Softpedia should update tomorrow or Tuesday.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announcement: Pasty - pastes highlighted text into an external search engine

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 28, 2009, 10:17 PM »

Pasty 1.4 Improved background color/text color combinations for Glass enabled systems.  Basically I try to detect if the background color is bright, and use black text instead of white in that case.  But I also added background colors to the drop down box.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announcement: Way Simple Folder Cache for Windows

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 28, 2009, 03:10 PM »

Folder Cache 3.6 released. Improved background color/text color combinations for Glass enabled systems.  Basically I try to detect if the background color is bright, and use black text instead of white in that case.  But I also added background colors to the drop down box.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announcement: ReOpen - Folder Cache, only betterer

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 28, 2009, 03:09 PM »

ReOpen 3.0 released.  Improved background color/text color combinations for Glass enabled systems.  Basically I try to detect if the background color is bright, and use black text instead of white in that case.  But I also added background colors to the drop down box.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Multithreading tutorials

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 26, 2009, 07:11 PM »

You can likely find some example source on
http://www.codeproject.com/

A good idea may be to look at some source from a threading class or component that seems to work well, from demos or applications etc..  IOW, if the guy's program doesn't hang and there's source, that may be a place to look.  Some components seem cool but as soon as you try to use 'em they crash.

If you do interactive apps(GUI type for example) a common requirement is to keep the GUI from "freezing" while a long background task grinds away. Often the thread types are divided into Windowed and Worker type... I forget whatever MFC I knew but I think it used that metaphor. A good exorcise is creating a GUI that launches a long task, that has a Cancel button that works.  For example, if the user starts calculating a checksum on a multi GB file and changes his mind.  Does he have to wait 5 minutes before the program "sees" he pressed Cancel?  That type of thing.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: move mouse to active window

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 26, 2009, 06:23 PM »

for multi-monitor setup, it'd be nice if the cursor only moves when the activated window is not on the primary monitor.

-lanux128 (June 26, 2009, 01:38 AM)

I have no way to test it.  I'm using a kvma switch. (If anyone with a MM setup wants to build on the snippet I posted they're welcome to do so.) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announce: SourceSnap - simple utility to snap up source or text

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 26, 2009, 09:32 AM »

SourceSnap 1.0.0.11 is up on Softpedia for download:

http://www.softpedia...ols/SourceSnap.shtml

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with autohotkey coding =(

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 25, 2009, 08:15 PM »

this is how good skrommel has gotten.. now he writes coding snacks before they are even requested 

-mouser (June 22, 2009, 12:33 PM)

And Vista Superfetch loads 'em before you even knew you had 'em.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announce: AutoPaste - simple source snatcher

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 25, 2009, 03:14 PM »

btw Curt, thanks for pointing that out. I've updated the Readme with a link to the HowTo Geek article.

(Even though the article mentiions batch files, it works for all file types.  I used it to change from notepad to EditPad Lite on Vista64 so it should work.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announce: AutoPaste - simple source snatcher

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 25, 2009, 03:07 PM »

I was going to add an .ini option for default editor, but that would be cumbersome for each file type.  I found a freeware on source forge that does it. It's called Types.

http://downloads.sou.../types-1.3.0-bin.zip

For instance on my system it showed an 'open' action for txtfile type .txt but no 'edit' action.  I have EditPad Lite as my text editor and that was the default for 'open'.  I just typed the word edit in the action line and clicked the + to add a new action, then copied the EditPad Lite info from the open line.  Works fine.  It requires .net 2.0 or later but if you're on Vista it should be on there by default.

If you're on XP you should be able to set the edit option the old way via OpenWith.

Here's the article I found on Howto Geek

http://www.howtogeek...atch-files-in-vista/